ISBN号:9798885785860
书名:River Sing Me Home
作者:Eleanor Shearer
出版日期:2023-01-31
英文简介:
” Rare.
Moving.
Powerful.
This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother’s gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery is a remarkable debut.
Her search begins with an ending.
.
.
The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery.
As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come into effect.
The cries of joy fall silent when he announces that they are no longer his slaves; they are now his apprentices.
No one can leave.
They must work for him for another six years.
Freedom is just another name for the life they have always lived.
So Rachel runs.
Away from Providence, she begins a desperate search to find her children–the five who survived birth and were sold.
Are any of them still alive? Rachel has to know.
The grueling, dangerous journey takes her from Barbados then, by river, deep into the forest of British Guiana and finally across the sea to Trinidad.
She is driven on by the certainty that a mother cannot be truly free without knowing what has become of her children, even if the answer is more than she can bear.
These are the stories of Mary Grace, Micah, Thomas Augustus, Cherry Jane and Mercy.
But above all this is the story of Rachel and the extraordinary lengths to which a mother will go to find her children.
.
.
and her freedom.
”
中文简介:
“罕见。
感人。
强大。
这个美丽的、翻页的、救赎的故事讲述了一位母亲在奴隶制结束后穿越加勒比海寻找被偷走的孩子的扣人心弦的旅程，这是一个非凡的处女作。
她的寻找始于结局……大师巴巴多斯普罗维登斯种植园的主人聚集他的奴隶并宣布国王已下令结束奴隶制。
从第二天起，1834 年的解放法案将生效。
当他宣布他们不再是奴隶制时，欢呼声消失了他的奴隶；他们现在是他的学徒。
没有人可以离开。
他们必须再为他工作六年。
自由只是他们一直过着的生活的另一个名字。
所以雷切尔逃跑。
远离普罗维登斯，她开始了绝望的寻找找到她的孩子——五个幸存并被卖掉的孩子。
他们中的任何一个还活着吗？雷切尔必须知道。
这段艰苦而危险的旅程将她从巴巴多斯带走，然后沿着河流，深入英属圭亚那的森林，最后穿过 海到特立尼达。
她被一种确定性所驱使，即一个母亲如果不知道她的孩子发生了什么，就不可能真正自由，即使答案超出了她的承受能力。
这些是 Mary Grace、Micah、Thomas Augustus、Cherry Jane 和 Mercy 的故事。
但最重要的是，这是瑞秋的故事，以及一位母亲为寻找孩子所付出的非凡努力……以及她的自由。
“
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